Means for attaching name-plates.



H. C. PAGE.

MEANS FOR ATTACHING NAME PLATES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.22. 1917.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

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HERMAN C. PAGE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG' COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION 0F NEW JERSEY.

MEANS FOB ATTACHING NAME-PLATES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

Application led August 22, 1917. Serial No. 187,621.

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN C. FAGE, a citizen of the United States of America, and

resident of Newark, in the county of Essex,

in the State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Means for Attaching Name-Plates, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in means for attaching name-plates to automobile radiators and other objects to which it might be desirable to apply a plate of this character.

These plates are usually made in disk form with more or less elaborate finish on the front face and are adapted to be applied to the upper front portion of the radiator plate 'which is also linished more or less elaborately by varnish, nickel or enamel, and the main object of my present invention is to provide simple means whereby a plate of this character may be easily and quickly secured to its supporting plate without mutilating the finish of either plate, and at the same time to conceal the locking means when the name-plate is adjusted for use, thereby reducing to a minimum the liability of malicious removal, and presenting the appearance of unity of the two plates.

Another object is to bring the plates into interlocking engagement with a sliding, wedging action and to hold them in operative relation by means of a spring catch and limiting stops, whereby the name-plate will be firmly held against rattling or accidental displacement.

Other objects and uses relating to specific parts of the device will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawings- Figure l is a front elevation of the upper portion of an automobileradiator showing a name-plate attached thereto by my improved connection.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged'rear face view of a portion of the supporting plate and meansvportion of the opening may be termed the stem, the laterally extending portions, the side branches, and the upper portion -4-, the top branch, although it will be understood that I do not limit myself to the prel cise form of the opening as herein shown and described.

The name-plate, as -A--, which is to be attached to the front plate f-2- of the radiator consists, in this instance, of a substantially fiat, circular disk, the front face of which may be embossed or finished in any artistic manner desired, while the back thereof is provided with a device adapted to cooperate with the openin-g'and Walls thereof for securement of the name-plate to the supporting plate.

This device on the back of the name-plate is also somewhat T-shape in elevation, the base or stem, as -5-, of which is of substantially the same width as the corresponding base or stem of the opening, while the intermediate portion is provided with a pair of laterally projecting wings -6- of slightly less vertical width than the corresponding branches of the opening -3-, the distance across said wings laterally from end to end being slightly less than the width of the opening across its branches, thus permitting the base and wings on the back of the nameplate to readily pass through the corresponding portions of the opening -3- in the supporting plate -2-.

The distance from the lower edge of the base 5 to the upper edges of the wings -6- is considerably less than the distance from the base of the opening to the lower edges of the lateral branches of said opening so that when the base and wings of the nameplate are passed from the front rearwardly through said opening, the wings 6- may thereof to firmly hold the name-plateagainst rattling when adjusted for use, at which time the base portion --eof the locking device on the name-plate will be engaged with the lower edge of the o ening -3- to hold the name-plate against u'rther downward movement.

This base portion 5- is also provided with rearwardly projecting flanges -7- at its opposite upright edges which engage the corresponding walls of the opening to hold a name-plate against lateral displacement in either direction.

The-locking deviceon the back of the name-plate is also provided with a spring tongue --8- projecting upwardly from its upper edge and is of slightly less size than that of the upwardly extending branch lof the opening -3- so as to readily enter said opening when the wings 6 are slidably interlocked with the adjacent walls of said opening, `the tongue 8 being tensioned to snap rearwardly into the branch -4- to interlock with the upper wall of said branch when the name plate is adjusted for use.

The Wings -6- are also under spring tension when wedged downwardly against the rear faces of the adjacent walls of the opening, as shown more clearly in Figs. 3 and 5, the lower, Vouter edges of the wings bein deflected rearwardly so as to produce the evel faces previously mentioned for wedging coaction with the walls vof the opening to yieldingly hold the name-plate against forward displacement and also against rattling.

The name-plate and also its supporting plate are preferably made of relatively thin sheet metal which 1s also more or less yielding so that in case it is necessary to remove the name-plate, the upper edge of the latter may be sprung forwardly sufficiently to withdraw the tongue 8- from interlocking engagement with the upper wall ofthe branch lof the opening -3-, whereupon the name-plate may be moved upwardly to withdraw thewings -6- from interlocking engagement with the walls of the opening -3- into registration with the lateral branches of said opening, whereupon the plate may be withdrawn forwardly from its supporting plate.

lt will be noted, however, that the entire locking device is wholly within the area of the name-plate and centrally thereof so that when said plate is adjusted for use upon its supporting plate, the locking means is wholly concealed by the name-plate and that owing to the slight movement necessa to bring the name-plate to its locked position, the liability of marring the finished surface of the supporting plate is reduced to a minimum.

W hat I claim is: i

1. The combination of a name-plate and a supporting plate therefor, said plates having detachable interlocking connections at theback and wholly within the area of the name-plate, said connections including a pair of wings on vthe name-plate passed through an opening in the supporting plate and interlocked with the walls of said opening by sliding engagement in one direction, and a spring catch also on the name plate and tensioned to spring into engagement with one ofthe walls of the o ening when the wings are moved to their ocking positions to hold the name-plate against movement in a reverse direction.

2. The combination with a support having a T-shaped opening formed with a central branch, of a plate having a iT-shaped frame secured thereto and adapted to be passed through the T-shaped opening and interlocked withthe Wall of said opening ,by sliding engagement in one direction, and

a catch adapted to engage the wall of the central branch when said sliding engagement has been eected. y

3. The combination of a supporting plate having an opening therethrough, and a name-plate having beveled wings on its back passed through said openingand its beveled portions wedgingly interlocked with the walls of said opening by sliding movement in one direction, said name-plate having a spring tongue tensioned to spring into said opening when the wings are interlocked with the supporting plate.

4. The combination with a support having a T-shaped opening formed with a central branch, of a plate having a T-shaped frame secured thereto and adapted to be passed through the T-shaped opening and interlocked with the wall of said opening by sliding engagement in one direction, and a pair of lianges on the frame extending substantially perpendicular to the plate and adapted for contactwith Wallsof said openi or said Wings opposite that upon which said flanges are located.

6. In a device of the class described, a name-plate, a frame secured thereto and comprising a body portion formed with oppositely extending oi'set Wings having end portions spaced from, but lying substantially parallel with, the plate, said body portion having a pair of spaced iianges ex- 10 tending at substantially right angles to the In Witness whereof I have hereunto set 15 my hand this 15th day of Au HERMA C. PAGE. Witnesses:

CHARLES F. LANDMEssER,

MYRTLE G. BENNETTE. 

